PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Domino’s was one of the first chains to innovate the space, developing an online tracker that reported order statuses to customers in real time and offered artificial intelligence (AI)-driven voice ordering. Domino’s took its first digital ordering step by introducing a delivery feature on its website in 2007. million in 2019.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage this holiday season. From supply chain and inventory improvements to new payment options, these brands are going all in on digital. Coca-Cola — Development and Innovation Lab.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. And why innovations that introduce more intelligence into the digital versions of those accounts that require little to no change of the consumer are highly valued by consumers, merchants and issuers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

“Visa has strategically positioned itself at the center of football and these events will further exemplify the unique experiences only Visa can provide to fans across the globe,” said Chris Curtin, chief brand and innovation marketing officer at Visa, in the press release.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

. — the convenience store chain had worked with Cardtronics since 2007 for its ATM machines. Increased Allpoint and bank-branded transactions across many of our retailers drove 3 percent growth in our North America business, excluding the impact from 7-Eleven,” said Cardtronics CEO Edward H.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2017

Bonobos was founded in 2007 and has since expanded to 35 brick-and-mortar shops nationwide. Adding innovators like Andy will continue to help us shape the future of Walmart and the future of retail,” Lore said. It is currently in a partnership agreement with Nordstrom. Lore oversees many of Walmart’s new digital acquisitions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Our team is dedicated to continuing 7-Eleven’s legacy of innovation with industry-leading digital solutions. From RBS to 7-Eleven, retail innovators are piloting cashierless technology with their employees to help make the shopping experience faster and more convenient for the general public. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

That is how the world first met the iPhone a little over ten years ago in January 2007, when Steve Jobs took to the stage to announce Apple’s latest and greatest innovation. And on June 29, 2007, we finally got it. The iPhone platform has enabled an incredible number of innovations that have made payments easier and more secure.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

Aided and abetted by mobile devices, apps and payments and logistics innovations have substantially improved the consumer’s digital shopping experiences. Amazon started with zero customers, zero brand awareness and a very ugly website with a clunky user experience, by today’s standards. I guess every sad story needs a bad guy.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

When streaming on-demand movies at scale became viable around 2007, a new household brand name emerged: Netflix. Yet it’s been said that of Netflix’s innovations, its smartest by far was charging a single monthly subscription price to watch as much as one wants instead of paying per rental, as was the industry standard.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Brands and products, not stores, will drive the search for the products consumers want to buy — even for many well-known brands for which marketplaces may also regarded as a competitive threat. The physical store becomes less relevant as digital marketplaces open the doors much wider to new customers and potential sales.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Not just any decade, but one that has seen unprecedented levels of innovation touch nearly every industry segment and almost every corner of the world. Only then, he said, can one get clarity about how those dots can guide innovators about the future. The last 10 years in payments and commerce have given us millions of dots to connect.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

Apple, the company that transformed how consumers listened to music with the iPod, was outplayed by an innovator with a new business model and a cross-platform, cross-device appeal. Netflix has been around since 1997 and launched its streaming service in 2007. We saw Apple Music debut in 2015, seven years after the launch of Spotify.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

To meet this rising demand, QSRs are tapping into ordering interfaces built into cars and reconstructing stores to make for smoother mobile pickup — along with other innovations. From Chipotle Mexican Grill to Square , QSRs and payment firms alike are enabling a world of ordering innovation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

Not just any decade, but one that has seen unprecedented levels of innovation touch nearly every industry segment and almost every corner of the world. Only then, he said, can one get clarity about how those dots can guide innovators about the future. Tuesday marked not only the end of a year, but the end of a decade.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Fearful of giving up ground to a tech intermediary — Apple , Google , Amazon — many OEMs are working with third parties to develop their own branded apps and connected in-dash experiences. Two years have been added to that lifespan over the decade spanning 2007 to 2017. In the U.S. today, there are roughly 272 million cars on the road.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Nearly 10 decades of watch innovation and competition have made fancy watches something of an acquired taste, however. Well, this week, the market finally realized this was a hole that both existed and needed filling, and one brand stepped up to fill it. If you think about Aston Martin, we are a very exclusive brand,” Reichman said. “In

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

Such is the double-edged sword of a retail industry swept up in innovation. The retailer to earn the dubious distinction of first to bow out in 2016 was teen fashion brand — and staple store front of the American mall’s heyday — Wet Seal, which filed the appropriate documents on Jan. January — Wet Seal. May — Aéropostale.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2017

As consumers continue to interact with brands in more ways than ever before, there’s an opportunity to create deep, lasting engagement within those relationships. the Golden Valley–based designer and builder of customized Cisco contact center solutions, in 2007. But it takes the right approach. PYMNTS: What’s been the biggest hurdle?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Not surprising, considering underwear weren’t really at the top of the list for what most men considered important products to upgrade or focus on — for years, men have pretty much just continued to wear the same styles and brands they always have. But the industry is changing, and men are now taking more ownership of their undergarments.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

And as Karen Webster noted in a 2016 commentary: “The generation that made sriracha a food group and yoga pants a go-to corporate wardrobe staple … the generation that every brand is desperately trying to woo is, by and large, broke.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The percentage of sales lost by those physical store franchises can be seen not only in the pretty charts and graphs that we produce and share on a regular basis but the ongoing drumbeat of the national and regional store closings for those brands that can no longer keep up. There weren’t easy ways to innovate retail business models.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

This platform framework, one that my colleagues at Market Platform Dynamics and I first introduced publicly back in 2007, shows the platform playbook in a step-by-step process. done earlier this year, which identifies brands that consumers might have an interest in banking with, showed that Facebook’s results were only slightly different.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

The company created Neo4j — an open-source graph database technology that has become the world’s leading graph database — in 2007, and the technology now serves over 200 clients including eBay, Walmart, IBM, and NASA. EE: Neo Technology was officially founded in 2007 by CEO Emil Eifrem and CTO Johan Svensson.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

Starting in 2007, the event has had a different focus each year on what is the next big thing for the social media giant, with breakout sessions on more tailored topics. Webster questioned where voice will be heading in terms of innovating, replacing or complementing messenger apps already in place. Now, they’re asking what’s next.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Date: May 18, 2007. in May of 2007 to Google’s $3.1B

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2016

But what if the truly ugly face of in-store retail’s discounting dependency could be found on the shelves of one of America’s largest brands? That’s exactly what the “ Raiders Of The Lost Walmart ” have been documenting for years. NOW: $150.00”).

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2018

That's what I thought about while reading a recent Financial Brand post about Innovation in Banking: Killer Ideas? Sticking with the Apple theme, in 2007, they launched the iPhone. And we would laugh, continue to drink our cocktail, and lament that another financial institution threw in the towel to merge with a bigger brother.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

Best Buy banished the commissioned employee from the sale floor and successfully branded itself as the one-stop shop for all things electronic where no one is upsold, fast talked or pushed into a package of expensive wires for their stereo system that they neither want, need or really understand. The Great Digital Upgrade.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2018

The humanization of pets has played well for brands and retailers that have developed or pivoted their strategies for consumers looking to treat their furry friends to the best that life has to offer,” Nielsen noted in its paper on pet care trends earlier this year. billion per year on their pets; as of 2007, pet owners spent $41.2

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off. RadioShack.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The launch of the iPhone in 2007 and the App Store in 2008 opened everyone’s eyes to the impact that mobile would have on payments and commerce. That’s about consumers seeing an acceptance mark like they do today — in this case, Masterpass — and then the issuer’s brand that enables them to complete the transaction.

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William Mills

APRIL 27, 2017

From their web site: The original idea for BeSmartee was founded in 2007 during the onset of the mortgage crisis. From their web site: We create, design and develop innovative applications, combining talent and technology to achieve high impact creative solutions for our clients’ needs. 12:28 pm Infocorp. Ana, CEO is speaking. “20

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2013: Decentralize decision-making to generate innovation. 2011: Self-service platforms unlock innovation. 2007: Missionaries build better products. 2004: Free cash flow enables more innovation. 2013: Decentralize decision-making to generate innovation. 2011: Self-service platforms unlock innovation.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

On the other, you have companies like Earth Class Mail, which despite its large user base went bankrupt during the 2007-08 financial crisis, only to reinvent itself and flourish under new ownership more than a decade later. Julep: M&A doesn’t guarantee ‘synergies’ Founded: 2007. Download the full 25-page report.

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NCR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Consumers will always appreciate choice, so placing too much stock in payment innovations over traditional methods like cash and checks could be an unwise move. It’s easy to forget that contactless cards were first launched back in 2007, meaning that the technology has been on British high streets for almost a decade.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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